Rusty Muck

It wouldn't be that far-fetched for KIII to launch a subchannel with the Fox affiliation (considering it is a legacy London station).

I'll give you a mulligan because you didn't endure what Clevelanders had to go through with the betrayal Art Modell committed. After all, Baltimorians got a gift handed right to them, a fully functional football team a decade after the Irsays packed the Colts up in a few Mayflowers and headed to Indianapolis. Clevelanders had to contest the move in court and basically forced the NFL to create an expansion team for Cleveland and for Modell to relinquish the Browns' history and colors. Only the NFL was half-assed about the expansion team, and stuck it to the city (read Terry Pluto's "False Start" as to HOW). Ask anyone in Cleveland what they think about the Modell family. Art's death was celebrated by a majority of people in town. That's how much people still hold him in utter contempt. They never even tried to return to Cleveland. And the Cleveland media has effectively blackballed Modell from the Pro Football Hall of Fame. One guy even PEED ON HIS GRAVE AND WAS SEEN AS A HERO. Any venture Armstrong Williams will try in the Cleveland area will fail spectacularly once his ties to the Modells are made known. It's just the way it is. It's a betrayal that will never be forgiven. Yes, Al Lerner did get off easy for his role in Modell's move of the Browns. But Al was able to win over public opinion as the guy who owned the new incarnation of the team. I didn't agree with that, but that's the way it goes.

It's a total ego massage for Dr. Carson by David Modell's bestest buddy (and yes, as a Browns fan, I hold that against Armstrong Williams). I like Ben, but let's face facts. He's no closer to becoming POTUS than you or I, mainly because he has never held an elective office of any sort. This program will really do nothing to change that, and few if any will actually watch it. And S!nclair is doing enough to actively bury the documentary in graveyard shifts; if they ordered a group-wide preemption of primetime programming to clear the program, we'd have a story here. But that isn't the case. The comments on the Mediaite story are cringe-inducing, mainly because of Dr. Carson's supporters who have decided to overlook the disaster that was Herman Cain's 2012 candidacy.

This archived version of the site isn't that bad.

Definitely a downgrade from what WHAM had prior. But for the S!nclair pack itself, this is actually an improvement. The open at least seems complete in comparison to WSYX's.

You would be correct. Note what I said - it STILL is the smartest thing Gannett has done with W*USA... because they set the bar so low over the past 15 years. They could hire Bob the Janitor as GM, and the same distinction would apply.

Per DCRTV.com, W*USA has hired away ex-WJLA ND Bill Lord as their news director and station manager. Probably the smartest thing Gannett has done with W*USA in over 15 years, if that.

Better, but not by much. The L3s are still hideously designed and far too big, and the animated bug is far too distracting. And considering how badly mutated the legacy MediaGeneral logo design had become...

Now, Rampage was simply abysmal. TIH may be generic and a bit hokey, but there is no realistic way you can compare it to the auditory disaster that was Rampage.

If Raycom didn't run WUAB as a total afterthought, that would be plausible. But there was a reason why the CW passed them over in the first place - WOIO clearly drives the bulk of attention for Raycom in Cleveland. And that was the case even before Bill Applegate and "Action News." I really doubt that they are even remotely interested in buying out a competitor.

Yeah, I kinda threw Tribune in as the clubhouse leader for whatever reason. But indeed, WEWS will be losing Live Well on 5.2 (if ABC hasn't already shut down the network) and WKYC 3.2 has been in an eternal radar loop since 2009, with PSAs thrown in almost at random. Out of all the potential buyers, Raycom is, far and away, the least likely to get WBNX.

That would be a massive downgrade for WOIO and totally foolish for Raycom to consider. WBNX's signal is just as impaired by Canadian signals to the north and thus is probably the worst signal in the market. WBNX is completely unrecieveable from where I live in Avon, even if I stick my antenna as far as possible. At least WOIO comes in if I make an effort to pick it up. Never have with 55.1. Far more likely that Tribune will buy WBNX's intellectual property as a whole, run it on WJW 8.2 (scooting off SD-formatted AntennaTV to 8.3), and Angely simply cashes out on 55.1.

WBNX is also a station that - until recently - openly censored curse words like "damn" by dropping the audio. Even on WB network programs. The station is enough of an asset for Angely to sell off if this scandal gets worse (and it might; the above link is the first of a SIX-PART series by Bob Dyer).

Dear God. The anchors look as cartoonish as the set itself.

Likely that the negotiations with these stations took place while the Allbritton deal was still pending. I'd be shocked if the Allbritton stations aren't bundled together with an extended affiliation deal in the coming months...

USA Today is a McPaper. It's also very popular among hotel housekeepers and tourist attractions. And it's the only property Gannett has with a national reach. I'd still stick it with the Gannett newspaper group with the impending spin-off. It can't be solvent by any stretch of the imagination, and it would totally drag down the Gannett television station group.

That's pretty stupid considering the impending spin-off of the entire newspaper division.

Which, of course, is operated entirely out of the WICU/WSEE studios in Erie. I'm wondering if WNBC got the .2 simulcast on WKAQ because of NBC's attempt to sell off WTVJ in 2008.

WKBW is tying in the new show to the implementation of the Scripps graphics package, in addition to a total rebuild of their weather and traffic computer equipment. Methinks that MCTYW will disappear from WKBW forever after the 11pm news on Sunday, September 28.

LIN-MG obviously learned their lesson after being spanked by CBS over WISH. It shouldn't be much of an issue at all.

Come later this month, when Scripps installs the standardized graphics/music on WKBW, bringing that station into the 20th century, there will be some that mourn the loss of MCTYW. But WKBW has a terribly antiquated look and sound, so much so that MCTYW's retirement is sorely needed. Change is a hallmark of the industry. Anomalies like WJZ and WPVI (and WNIR) are exceptions to the rule.

At least one station is keeping The Spirit alive... [yt]QoIcKI_L96w[/yt] And yes, WNIR still uses that jingle package to this day.

The only - ONLY - station to have revived a newscast theme due to popular demand... was WPVI in 1996. And they had good reason: NO ONE liked the London Philharmonic Orchestra's rendition of MCTYW. This is Home isn't bad. It's generic. It's a bit corporate-ish. But there's nothing that garners immediate negative reaction like MCTYW by the London Philharmonic Orchestra did. And honestly, I don't think the majority of viewers to either station are spitting angry that "The Spirit" - a musical signature barely in use for YEARS - got retired. Your idea is not only impractical, it is impossible and almost childish. No suit from Gannett is going to read posts on FB fan pages for WFAA or KHOU and think, "Ah ha! Let's bring back The Spirit!" That is not how the world works.

Scripps has made official that KMGH's ND Jeff Harris is jumping over to WEWS. Take from that what you will.

WEWS just posted a promo for "The Now Cleveland," which unsurprisingly has it's own dedicated YouTube channel. [yt]PE1agocDwlo[/yt]